How do you define "dance" anyway? Tracks with a dance beat, or tracks that actually gets played at dance clubs? Because there's plenty of stuff (like IDM, minimal techno) that would fit the former definition but not the latter.

How do you define "dance" anyway? Tracks with a dance beat, or tracks that actually gets played at dance clubs? Because there's plenty of stuff (like IDM, minimal techno) that would fit the former definition but not the latter.

and there's a lot of stuff that DJs will drop into a set that is blatantly not "electronic dance" but i think on the whole it's reasonably clear what we're voting for and hopefully outliers will just not get votes

Electronic dance music (EDM) is electronic music produced primarily for the purposes of use within a nightclub setting, or in an environment that is centered upon dance-based entertainment. The music is largely created for use by disc jockeys and is produced with the intention of it being heard in the context of a continuous DJ set; wherein the DJ progresses from one record to the next via a synchronized segue or "mix".

Okay, here's a revised nomination list, I removed all the beatless/ambient/etc stuff, if this is supposed to be a "dance" poll. I still don't why it should be limited to dance, but it's up to you to decide.

To elaborate: everyone knows there's a lot of overlap between electronic "dance" music and "non-dance" music, plenty of producers have released both, plus it's sometimes hard to tell if a track is supposed to be "dance" even if it has a beat. So this kind of artificial division feels weird, unless we limit this to actual stuff that people dance to at clubs; but in that case, many of the nominations here wouldn't apply. So I think it'd make much more sense to just have a general "electronic music" poll.